Storage battery



TES

CHARLES D. eri-unir.ownsy or PHILADELPHIA, rnmvsrnvnnm.

soreness.- serenata".

Application ledecember 5,

To this'and othenends hereinafter setforth, the inventionv comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

- 'through an opening vided with an abutment.b

The invention will be described in connec-vv tion with the ing part hereof and in which* accompanying. drawings: form- Figure 1, is a sectional view illustrative of the method of making the seal and showing fea-tures of construction.

F 1g. 2, is' a sectional view of so 'milch of' a battery'as is necessary for an illustration ofthe invention, and

Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, are similar views show. ing modifications;

n the drawings l, is a. battery jar cover,

and 2, is acell terminal post extending in the cover and pro- In Figsl, 2., 3 and 4, the abutment takes the' form -ot' a 'flange 3. In Figs. 5 and 6, the abut-nient takes the form'of a tapering enlargement 3u.v

In Figs. 1., 2, 3 and 5,a gasket orpa'cking 4 or en, is shown between the abntnientand the cover, whereas in Figs. 4 and 6, the cover itself under' pressure actsas a packing. ln general, this construction is not new, but tine/cell terminal post is shorter than usual and from this there results a saving in material.' 'A connectez' shown in Figs. l, 2, 'andti, as an intercell connestor 5, and in Fig, 3, as a termina-l con nector 6, Yis sleeved onto the Celi terminati.

gasket or pack post 2, and the ooverl, and

are gripped or ing 4 or 4;, when present,

pressed between the connector and the.

iiange thus providing a seal eonneetion. 7, is a burned or lead puddled joint provided between the connector and. the terminati or end portion of 'the post, and this joint binds the connecter to the pest in Specification of Letters Patent.

191e. smal No. 24a-,mal

Patented May 3, 192i..

position for holding the cover and gasket, .when present, 1nA pressed-relation between the abutment, and the connector, thus mainftaining the described seal connection.

The gasket or packing, l, and the connector are on th then toward each other,

strung o1" assembled shown in the' drawings; and abutment are pressed use being madey of a. die,

e post 2,.as the connector as a, Fig. l, and of some V'support as b for the cell terminal post 2,

and while the 'parts are pressed together, the burned or lead puddled Join-t 7, 1s made, as by introducing a flame andleaden material through the die. ai.. A burned or puddled vjoint is well understood and it is something like a weld giving rise to a practically/'unitary structure so that the cross-hatching' in Figs. 2 and A3,

is diagrammatically illustra-tive of and- ' paddling lead burning, rather than of any lines L'of demarcation between the parts,'or there are really no such lines in ture. I l". and

. an opening in the cover a fla cover, the combination with sleeved onto the cell seek the finished strucclaim: In a storage battery having: a jar covera cell terminali post extending through and provided with gasket between it and the a' connector terminal post and ben which. and the iange the cover vand et are gripped 1to form a'seal, of a nge having a' burned orlead-pnddled joint provided between the connector and-,the terminal tion sealed 'relat1on.

2 and an opening in the cover an abutment between itor v post to hold the parts in Kod of the ln a storage battervhavin a jar cover a cell termina-l post extending through and provided withy and the cover, the@ combinati-ion with a connector sleeved' onto the o seal,

nel' in i.

tery

ell tern'iinai post et a burned er lead-puddled'joint proportion et the post 'to hold edeeaied reiation.

e ethod or' sealing o. storage bat-- dan cell terminal 'post through a jar h consists in sti-inwing a. gasket. he eff-,ver and a tonneetor on the the parts.

of the post and the connector by sing the same teward each other,'and

post," the cover and gasketbetween the if used, the cover' and between which and ,the abutment the @over is gripped to form a the termil had burning or puddng the mmnectm and the te-.'mna part of the post while, the parts are pressed, subsmually as described.

4;. The method o'sealing a, storage bat- Qa-ry @all terminal post thisough cover which com a. connes-0r on thi; post havmg an abutment,

1u :Stringing the co'vef and gripping the cover and gasket between be abutment of the post and the connector by pressing the same towad each otl'1e1','and 10 lead burning/01' puddng the Cmmectr and the "fmnal part of @he 'post while the pans m3@ pressed, substantially as descfbed.

` CRLES GALLOWAY. 

